The emigrants, or, A trip to the Ohio
Subtitle: a farce
By: [George Cumberland].
Series: Blake -- no. 994
Published: 1817
Language: eng
Format: Manuscript
Number of pages: 59
Other titles: Trip to the Ohio
Notes: Holograph.

Play.

Probably composed between 1800 and 1805, this copy transcribed in or around 1817 (the latest watermark date).

Bound in three-quarter Red morocco, blind stamped but without letters or gilding, over Brown marbled boards, edges gilt, uniform with two other Cumberland manuscripts.

Paper watermarked: HALL 1815 and crown over crest, with hunting-horn (leaves 1-2, 58-59); Crown medallion with lion (leaf 3); W KINGSFORD 1817 and crown over medallion with Britannia (leaves 4-27); G PIKE 1817 and crown over medallion with Britannia (leaves 28-57). All with vertical chain lines. Cf. Bentley.

Leaves 1-2, 55-59 and the versos of leaves 4-35 and 37-54 are blank.

Edited by E.B. Bentley for an undergraduate course at University of Toronto.

Bentley, G.E. Bibliography of George Cumberland, p. 97.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.